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BANT May Not Work in Qualifying Leads for Industrial Sales

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Sales people have been using BANT (Budget, Authority, Needs, and Timing/Timeframe) criteria to qualify leads and prospects for a long time ever since IBM first coined that acronym. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.]. This is only a content summary. This is only a content summary.

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Can Digital Marketing Make the Phone Ring for Industrial Companies?

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Generating leads is always the central theme in my daily conversations with manufacturing, engineering and industrial companies. However, a qualified lead means different things to different people and it is rare for me to find too many of these companies to have a clear definition of what a lead means to them.

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Digital Marketing Can Increase Industrial Sales

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Call it digital marketing or inbound marketing with content , the fact is marketing is now playing a much more active role in complex industrial sales. This has worked great in the past but the Internet and digital marketing have changed how that process works today.

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SAL is the Glue that Binds Sales and Marketing in Lead Generation

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A lead is a lead, right? Depends – are you in marketing or in sales? SAL – Sales Accepted Leads is the bridge between Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) and Sales Qualified Leads (SQL). Quantitative lead definitions reduce the friction between sales and marketing.

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Manufacturers Need Lead Management to Close the RFQ Gap

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Talking to manufacturers and industrial companies on a daily basis has convinced me that when they say they need help with their lead generation, they really want more RFQ (Request For Quote) opportunities. Generating new leads, qualifying and nurturing them until they turn into a RFQ is too much work for them.

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Rules of B2B Lead Scoring – Who’s Hot, Who’s Not

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Lead scoring has become very important in today’s B2B marketing. Marketing’s role in interacting with prospects has expanded and goes further into the buy cycle than before. Lead scoring, a key component of lead nurturing and management, is an effective tool for aligning sales and marketing.

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Inbound Marketing Must Set the Table for Industrial Sales

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In my conversations with industrial companies about inbound marketing, I find my audience agreeing with me up to a certain point and then there is a big disconnect. I see heads nodding in face-to-face meetings or hear plenty of “Uh-huhs” on the phone when I talk about the benefits of inbound marketing.